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Lunch & afternoon entertainment

S3 Health & Food Technology pupils with the healthy desserts that they made for  guests who were here this Monday for lunch & an afternoon of entertainment provided by the Music and Drama Department.

The desserts they are holding are berry cream towers made with fatless sponges which are also high in fibre as they were made with wholemeal flour. The cream is low fat cream and it has loads of berries mixed through to provide ACE vitamins.

Visit to the Mitchell Library Archives

On the morning of Thursday 22nd November 20 Higher History pupils went to the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. This is one of the largest and most reputable reference libraries in Europe. The pupils were invited to examine a selection of primary sources relating to the migration of Scots. This was an invaluable opportunity to examine genuine historical sources which are archived and rarely available to the general public. The visit was further enhanced by the guidance and expertise of the very helpful Archivists, Dr Irene O’Brien and Nerys Tunnicliffe. The whole visit provided an invaluable insight into genuine historical research.

Book Week Scotland (27 November – 3 December)

Join in this celebration of books and reading by taking part in the S1 Book Cover Design Challenge or the Book Week Scotland Quiz – all year groups

Also, follow @AirdrieAcadLRC and read a story written over twitter by school librarians. Feel free to pop into the library to give Mrs Agnew some creative writing tips or simply to pick up your free Book Week Scotland bookmark.

Visit the library for more details.

S1 Book Cover Design Challenge

During Book Week Scotland all first year English classes will have the opportunity to take part in Miss Frew’s Book Cover Design Challenge.

Pupils who create the best entries from each class will be awarded with a copy of “Robert Burns – A Peculiar History”.

The overall winner will be nominated for the Jim Cook Award for Scottish Literature at the annual prizegiving.

All entries will be judged by our Library Resource Centre Manager, Mrs Agnew.

Good luck everyone!

Dragon’s Lair

Ciara, Morgan, and Robyn were Airdrie Academy’s S3 representatives at the Dragon’s Lair event. They created a business name – SolarJuice and devised a product to pitch to the Dragons. Their product was a solar powered charging accessory. As part of the competition they researched their product and completed a comprehensive business report and as a result made it to the final.

Dragon’s Lair

Street Food Winners

Over 200 portions of street food were made and sold by the S2 Health and Food Technology pupils. This was part of their Food Product Development unit to research and design a street food product. It was a sell out with a huge number of pupils and staff coming along to Home Economics to buy their lunch.

The winners were, Meccio’s Pizza Dough Balls and the runners up, Cookie Supreme’s. They are pictured with Miss Iona Marshall who was our industry judge. Iona is a former pupil of Airdrie Academy and is now a Home Economics Teacher.

Street Food Winners
Street Food Runners Up

 

Lessons from Auschwitz Project

Last Thursday a group from Airdrie Academy visited Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland. This was part of the Lessons from Auschwitz Project run by the Holocaust Educational Trust. They attended seminars both beforehand and to follow up on the visit, all with the aim of commemorating the survivors of the Holocaust and educating us on the importance of keeping their testimonies alive. The girls were an absolute credit to the school, showing maturity beyond their years and are now Holocaust Educational Trust Ambassadors – an esteemed title.

To follow up to the visit, the group now have a responsibility to share and pass on what they have learned, and are hoping to tie this in with Holocaust Memorial Day in January and beyond.